Black-crowned Tityra - BirdForum Opus

Male, subspecies albitorques
Photo by Reini
Costa Rica, February 2005

Tityra inquisitor

Identification

16·5–20·5 cm (6½-8 in)
Male

• Pale grey upperparts
• Black crown, lores , ear-coverts and subocular area
  

Female

• Brown head

Distribution

Female, subspecies pelzelni
Photo by kitefarrago
Araras Lodge, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil, August 2017

Central and South America
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Subspecies fraserii
Photo by Stanley Jones
Summit Gardens, north of Panamá City towards Gamboa, Panamá Province, Panama, February 2018

There are 6 subspecies^[1]:

• T. i. albitorques:

• Tropical eastern Panama to north-western Bolivia and western Amazonian Brazil

• T. i. buckleyi:

• Tropical south-eastern Colombia (Caquetá) and eastern Ecuador (Napo-Pastaza)

• T. i. erythrogenys:

• Tropical eastern Colombia to Venezuela, the Guianas and northern Brazil

• T. i. fraserii:

• Tropical south-eastern Mexico (San Luis Potosí) to central Panama

• T. i. inquisitor:

• Tropical south-eastern Brazil (southern Piauí) to eastern Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina

• T. i. pelzelni:

• Tropical north-eastern Bolivia, Mato Grosso and Brazil south of the Amazon

Habitat

Female, subspecies fraserii
Photo by Stanley Jones
Summit Gardens, north of Panamá City towards Gamboa, Panamá Province, Panama, February 2018

Atlantic Rainforest, forest edges, semi-open lowland humid forest and littoral forest.

Behaviour

Diet

Their main diet consists of fruit, though they feed mostly invertebrates to their young.

Breeding

They utilise old woodpecker holes in dead trees for the nest.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2017. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2017, with updates to August 2017. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. BF Member observations
4. Encyclopaedia Brittanica
5. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved Jan 2018)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Black-crowned Tityra. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 20 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-crowned_Tityra

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